CANTON – Volunteers from eight synagogues, three Jewish groups, a Jewish academy and a senior citizen housing complex will hold a “Mitzvah Day” of charitable works on Sunday, April 6.

“Our feeling is, we can do more together than individually,” said Debby Stein Sharpe, a member of Temple Beth Abraham in Canton and one of the event’s organizers.

The synagogues and other groups formed the South Area Temple Collaboration for the “Social Action Mitzvah Day,” which takes its name from the Hebrew word for an act of kindness.

Sharpe said food-bag preparation and other “hands-on” activities will take place at Temple Beth David of the South Shore in Canton and Temple Sinai in Sharon. Some volunteers will run three lemonade stands outside supermarkets in the area, to raise money for childhood-cancer research.

Along with those two synagogues and the Beth Abraham congregation, the group includes Temple B’nai Shalom of Braintree, the Adath, Israel and Kol Tikvah temples in Sharon, and Temple Beth Emunah in Brockton.

They are joined by the Simon Fireman Senior Housing in Randolph, Kehillah Schecter Academy in Norwood, B’nai B’rith Girls, Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Boston.

Sharpe said the idea of a “Mitzvah Day” formed among members of some of the synagogues in May 2013. They organized their first such event last fall, as volunteers for the construction of a Habitat for Humanity home.

Sharpe said the South Area Temple Collaboration invited all South Shore synagogues and planned the April 6 “Mitzvah Day” with those who responded. She said the group aims to organize two such events every year.

She said next weekend’s activities are still open to anyone who wants to participate.